Combined necktie and collar-button



(No Model.)

No. 383,929. Patented June 5, 1888.

Invenzo UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEG 'ALFRED C. VVHITTINGHAM, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 383,929, dated June 5, 1888.

' Application tiled Novembcrll, 1887. Serial No. 254,909. tNomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, ALFRED O. WHITTING- HAM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Necktie and Collar-Button; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to a combined necktie and collar-button, and has for its object to provide a tie capable of securing the collar to the shirt-band, and at the same time securely hold the tie in place, thereby obviating the necessity of a button supplemental to the tie and the various devices that have heretofore been necessarily employed to hold the tiein proper position. I attain these results by the arrange ment shown in the drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a collar and tie attached thereto. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the rear side of the tie, showing the button attached thereto. view of a button provided with perforations through which the material for fastening the same to the tie is passed.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A designates the tie; C, the band surrounding collar B. D designates the button, having perforations D. At a proper distance from the top of the tie, at its inner side and equidistant from the sides. is attached a collar-but ton, having a shank of sufficient length to pass through the collar and neckbandof a shirt.

As illustrated, the button is attached to the Fig. 3 is a detail tie by being passed through an elongated perforation made in the inner portion of the tie, as shown in Fig. 2, the inner disk of the button being perforated, as at D, as shown in Fig. 3, for the purpose of sewing the button to the inner portion of the body of the tie.

To attach the tie, the shank D, having the enlargement D, is passed through the buttonholes at each end of the collar and through the button-hole of the shirt-band,and bythismcans the collar and tie are securely fastened to the shirt.

By securing the button to the tie in the manner described the inner disk is placed between the outer and inner sides of the tie, and securely fastened by means of the threads employed in fastening the same being passed through the body of the tie 011 either side thereof, and through the perforation in the disk, thereby obviating the use of expensive metallic fasteners; also rendering it easy to de tach the button when the tiebecomes worn and worthless.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, the combined necktie and collar-button herein described, consisting of a scarf or tie having a collar-button secured within the body of the same by means of stitches, its shank and head projecting and adapted to pass through the button-holes of a collar and neckbaud, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I hereby affix my signature in presence of two witnesses. I

ALFRED O. WHIT'IINGHAM.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM WEBSTER, JAMEs E. RAYMER. 

